Tarantino Surprises AFI Fest With Cliff Booth Footage

Quentin Tarantino made a surprise appearance at AFI Fest during a screening of Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood at the Chinese Theatre. After the film, he took part in a Q&A with Jacqueline Coley and then shocked the crowd by offering a first look at his new project, The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth.

Instead of just talking about the movie, Tarantino showed the first 17 minutes. The footage suggests a darker Cliff Booth than the one seen in Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood, with the story set in June 1977. In the new film, Cliff works as a projectionist at the New Beverly Cinema and also seems to be doing shady fixer work.

The preview also included Tarantino-style dialogue, a Blaxploitation movie-within-the-movie called Soul Brothers Die Hard, and a relationship between Cliff and his father, played by Peter Weller. Tarantino said the film is being directed by David Fincher, while he wrote the script.

During the Q&A, Tarantino also talked about casting Burt Reynolds as George Spahn before Reynolds died, and he explained some of the movie’s hidden references, including the story behind Cliff’s “Canadian tuxedo.” The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth opens in theaters from Netflix on November 25.